Elaine Mikels

Elaine Mikels
A newspaper photograph of a middle-aged white woman, smiling, with a short haircut
Elaine Mikels, from a 1963 newspaper
BornApril 28, 1921
Los Angeles, California
DiedFebruary 16, 2004
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Occupation(s)Activist, social worker
Known forFounder, Conard House

Elaine Mikels (April 28, 1921 – February 16, 2004) was an American activist and social worker. In 1960 she opened Conard House, the first psychiatric halfway house in San Francisco. She wrote an autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess: From Closet Lesbian to Radical Dyke (1993). Her papers are held in the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.